The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)

盖伊•特立斯（Gay Talese, 1932年2月7日— ），美国著名作家、记者，“新新闻主义”代表人物，曾任职《纽约时报》十年，长期为《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《时尚先生》（Esquire）等杂志撰稿。 特立斯的雄心是“将非虚构写作提升到前人未至之境，一探虚构作家之禁脔，与同侪菲利普•罗斯、厄普代克一较短长”，不仅将文学技巧引入纪实书写，更对美国社会作了切片般的精准分析。 他受《时尚先生》之邀采写的特稿《弗兰克•辛纳屈感冒了》是新新闻风格的代表性作品，被誉为“二十世纪最伟大的非虚构书写”、“有史以来最具影响力的美国杂志文章之一”、“《时尚先生》刊登过的最好文章”，并收录进“企鹅现代经典”。《王国与权力》位列“关于新闻业，五本最好的书”；《被仰望与被遗忘的》《邻人之妻》等作品也无愧时代经典。在他笔下，没有失败者、小人物、零余人，所...(展开全部)

盖伊•特立斯（Gay Talese, 1932年2月7日— ），美国著名作家、记者，“新新闻主义”代表人物，曾任职《纽约时报》十年，长期为《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《时尚先生》（Esquire）等杂志撰稿。 特立斯的雄心是“将非虚构写作提升到前人未至之境，一探虚构作家之禁脔，与同侪菲利普•罗斯、厄普代克一较短长”，不仅将文学技巧引入纪实书写，更对美国社会作了切片般的精准分析。 他受《时尚先生》之邀采写的特稿《弗兰克•辛纳屈感冒了》是新新闻风格的代表性作品，被誉为“二十世纪最伟大的非虚构书写”、“有史以来最具影响力的美国杂志文章之一”、“《时尚先生》刊登过的最好文章”，并收录进“企鹅现代经典”。《王国与权力》位列“关于新闻业，五本最好的书”；《被仰望与被遗忘的》《邻人之妻》等作品也无愧时代经典。在他笔下，没有失败者、小人物、零余人，所...(展开全部)

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)

A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by an unseen assailant, caught between the horrors on the other side of the door and the horrors rapidly skittering down the walls inside.

In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, though the winter, spring, and summer o...(展开全部)

In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, though the winter, spring, and summer o...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Ross, the classical music critic for the New Yorker, leads a whirlwind tour from the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss's Salome in 1906 to minimalist Steve Reich's downtown Manhattan apartment. The wide-ranging historical material is organized in thematic essays grounded in personalities and places, in a disarmingly comprehensive style ...(展开全部)

亚历克斯·罗斯（Alex Ross） 1990年毕业于哈佛大学，1996年起为《纽约时报》撰写乐评，著有《余下只有噪音》（The Rest Is Noise，2007）和《倾听》（Listen to This，2010）。《余下只有噪音》荣获2007年美国国家评论奖、《卫报》优秀图书奖，当选《纽约时报》《时代周刊》年度十佳和《华盛顿邮报》年度最佳图书，并入围普利策奖决选名单。罗斯获颁美国艺术与文学学院的艺术与文学奖，以及新英格兰音乐学院和曼哈顿音乐学院的荣誉博士学位。 郭建英 1953年8月生于北京。先后在清华大学和北京大学获得计算机科学学士学位与硕士学位。现居美国旧金山湾区。除在信息产业从事研发、管理工作外，长年对音乐艺术与其他人文领域持有深厚兴趣，受教于多位音乐家、诗人、哲学家。曾与其他译者合作翻译出版《瓦格纳与哲学》。

A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties. In The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classical music: portraits of individuals, cultures, and nations reveal the predicament of the composer in a noisy, chaotic century...(展开全部)